Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 511 527
Rank change year-on-year -41 +16 +69
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 79 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.13% 0.14% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 6 4
10th Percentile £403 £386 -
25th Percentile £450 £478 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £606
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -7.22% +1.04%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £725
90th Percentile £765 £600 -
UK median daily rate £560 £563 £606
% change year-on-year -0.44% -7.22% +1.04%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,018 4,998 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.11% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,702 3,442 4,350
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 82 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £25.34 £19.65
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.31 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.22
% change year-on-year +7.75% +6.88% -39.61%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -30 50 £538 +4.88% 61
North of England - 15 £438 - 3
Yorkshire - 8 £450 - 2
North West - 7 £425 - 1
South West - 5 £725 - 2
South East -67 4 £700 +52.17% 12
East of England -22 1 - - 3
West Midlands -47 1 - - 1
Midlands -49 1 - - 1
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.66%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Appian
2 1 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.30%) Power Platform
2 25 (31.65%) Azure
3 19 (24.05%) dbt
4 17 (21.52%) Snowflake
5 12 (15.19%) AWS
6 11 (13.92%) SaaS
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) GCP
9 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (6.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (5.06%) Amazon Neptune
11 4 (5.06%) GitHub
12 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.80%) Azure Stack
12 3 (3.80%) Fivetran
13 2 (2.53%) Dagster
13 2 (2.53%) Dataform
13 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (2.53%) Semaphore
13 2 (2.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (44.30%) Power BI
2 18 (22.78%) Looker
3 17 (21.52%) Star Schema
4 16 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (17.72%) Metadata
6 13 (16.46%) Snowflake Schema
7 12 (15.19%) BigQuery
8 9 (11.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (11.39%) Tableau
9 7 (8.86%) Data Lake
10 6 (7.59%) Power Query
11 5 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (6.33%) Delta Lake
12 4 (5.06%) Data Mart
12 4 (5.06%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (5.06%) Stardog
13 3 (3.80%) QlikView
13 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
13 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
2 3 (3.80%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.27%) ERwin
3 1 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
General
1 26 (32.91%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Marketing
4 6 (7.59%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Banking
6 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Architect
1 20 (25.32%) Data Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Data Architect
3 11 (13.92%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Lead
5 6 (7.59%) Data Modeller
6 5 (6.33%) Head of AI
7 3 (3.80%) Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 3 (3.80%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Developer
7 3 (3.80%) SAP Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Data Integration Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (2.53%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) PySpark
2 3 (3.80%) JSON
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Jena
3 2 (2.53%) JSON-LD
3 2 (2.53%) YAML
4 1 (1.27%) FHIR
4 1 (1.27%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.27%) Jinja
4 1 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) SWRL
4 1 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.13%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.33%) Taxonomies
4 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.06%) Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.53%) Linked Data
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.27%) IoT
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (77.22%) Data Modelling
2 60 (75.95%) Analytics
3 56 (70.89%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (44.30%) AI
5 30 (37.97%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (35.44%) Data Engineering
7 21 (26.58%) Data Governance
8 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
9 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (20.25%) Migration
10 16 (20.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (18.99%) Data Architecture
11 15 (18.99%) Data Transformation
11 15 (18.99%) Decision-Making
11 15 (18.99%) Use Case
12 14 (17.72%) Dimensional Modelling
13 11 (13.92%) Workflow
14 10 (12.66%) Machine Learning
15 9 (11.39%) LLM
15 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) SQL
2 19 (24.05%) Python
3 14 (17.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (7.59%) LookML
5 3 (3.80%) SHACL
5 3 (3.80%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.27%) Cypher
6 1 (1.27%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.27%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.13%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) QA
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.27%) HL7
5 1 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (1.27%) Grafana
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Databricks
2 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) SAP
4 3 (3.80%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Oracle
4 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Ariba
6 1 (1.27%) Foundry
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Palantir